Nurse bashing by UK public AGAIN

english_nurse · Mar 3, 2008

Well personally, I get up every morning and think 'sod it, cant be orificed to wash me face and brush me hair, and its all tony blair and gordon browns fault' then i go to work.... or sometimes i dont..... it depends on how lazy i feel on the day really.......

doesnt everyone feel like this then????:icon_roll:icon_roll

must be just me.....

after all, who ever is in government is to blame for everything in my life that goes wrong... i have no control over what i say, do, or my attitude to life, it is centrally controlled by the government pixies in my brain.......or could it be because the government put fluoride in the water(drug control).....or the CCTV everywhere (put there by the government to make sure im behaving)......or, the mobile phone masts (planted by the government to listen to me).......or the wind turbines off the coast of Wales (government put them there i reckon, its a way of calling in the alien spaceships you know :mad: )...

or could it just be that a few bad apples make us all look bad sometimes (something that happenes in all jobs, government controlled or not)

must go, need to feed my pixies or Gordon Brown will get me :bugeyes:

StNeotser, ASN, RN · Mar 3, 2008

Sorry, it was meant to be a sarcastic remark aimed at some of the readers comments. I was really tired when I posted it and it obviously hasn't come out right.

It seems that since nurses have been getting laid off and now less nurses on the wards the public seems to be targeting the nurses themselves, rather than the powers that be that are causing issues within the NHS. Make sense?

I'm sure nobody has let hygiene standards slip or chats more at the nurses station because of a Labour government.

english_nurse · Mar 3, 2008

aha!!!

now my pixies understand

:lol2: :lol2:

i know what you mean though, more staff please,

do you know what, sometimes the public pee me off big time, i had a discussion with someone a few months ago at a family party which went like this, at the time i was off work sick as i had a burst appendix, peritonitis and a wound infection, nearly ended up in hdu, and was just starting to recover.... this conversation was with a man who works part time as its not worth working part time as he will loose his top up benefits..

'so, when are you going back to work then???'

me- 'well im not allowed back yet, my wound hasnt healed'

him- 'well you realise that im paying your wages while you are off, and its disgusting!'

me-' i pay taxes too'

him 'yes, but i pay your wages anyway, as the government pays you, i think its wrong you get paid when you are off, you get paid too much anyway, and because of that my taxes are so high!!'

me- 'do you get family tax credit-cos i dont, im out of the bracket I earn slightly too much'

him- 'yes'

me 'WELL, MAY I SUGGEST YOU WORK MORE HOURS OR GET A BETTER JOB, AS THAT TAX CREDIT COMES OUT OF MY WAGES, AND IM PAYING YOU TO SIT ON YOUR A***'

its almost as if some people think they own us, sometimes you just cant do anything right

im not slating people who have tax credit, im slating the mentality of someone who assumes he owns me and pays my wages!!!!, who does he think he is?? Gordon Brown????

thread hijack over

StNeotser, ASN, RN · Mar 3, 2008

aha!!!
n 'well you realise that im paying your wages while you are off, and its disgusting!'
me-' i pay taxes too'
im slating the mentality of someone who assumes he owns me and pays my wages!!!!, who does he think he is?? Gordon Brown????
thread hijack over

Oh yes, I used to have that one too when I worked for Cambs Social Services. :icon_roll

Anyway, I'd love to read in one of the national papers about how nursing jobs are being cut and that staff/patient ratios are not good and that is a big deal on how one receives care in the hospital. Not about gossipy crap, do nurses sleep around, etc.

MVH119 · Mar 4, 2008

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Anger over peer's 'sex and booze' nurses slur

Matthew Taylor

The Guardian, Saturday March 1 2008 Article history - Contact us

A Tory peer who branded nurses as "grubby, drunken and promiscuous" during a Lords debate was facing a backlash yesterday, with nurses' leaders describing his comments as grossly unfair and calling for him to produce evidence to back up his claims.

Lord Mancroft told peers it was a miracle he was alive after his experience of filthy wards and "slipshod and lazy" nurses at the Royal United hospital, Bath. During the debate on Thursday night he claimed the nurses had openly chatted to one another about their sex lives and alcohol intake in front of patients, some of whom they regarded as "a nuisance".

"The nurses who looked after me were mostly grubby - we are talking about dirty fingernails and hair - and were slipshod and lazy. Worst of all, they were drunken and promiscuous," he said, adding that the nurses were "an accurate reflection of many young women in Britain today".

The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) said his comments were an attack on nurses across the UK and amounted to a "sexist insult" against all British women. The RCN general secretary and chief executive, Peter Carter, said: "If any patient has an issue with their treatment by staff they should raise this with the healthcare provider, rather than make sweeping generalisations about nurses and sexist insults about the behaviour of British women."

The peer, who lives in Badminton, Gloucester, was admitted to the Royal United for a week last August, with what is believed to have been an intestinal infection. During the debate he described the experience as appalling.

"If you are a patient and lying in a bed and being nursed from either side, they talk across you as if you're not there. So I know what they got up to the night before, how much they drank and what they were planning to do the next night. I can tell you it's pretty horrifying. I can only tell you that it is a miracle that I am still alive. The wards were filthy."

Francesca Thompson, director of nursing at the hospital, said: "We excel at our job and his comments have devastated our staff. He's made serious allegations in a forum where we had no chance to respond."

James Scott, chief executive of the RUH, revealed he had quizzed Lord Mancroft about his claims and demanded evidence of any wrongdoing. "I hope Lord Mancroft will now reflect on the damage he has done to the general reputation and moral standing of the nursing profession."

Don Foster, Liberal Democrat MP for Bath, demanded Lord Mancroft withdraw his claims if he could not back them up.

The health minister, Ann Keen, said: "The country holds nurses in the highest regard. People will want to know what action David Cameron is taking on this matter or if he shares his views."

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